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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
John D. Rockefeller
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John D. Rockefeller
Age: 97 †
Born: 1839
Born: July 8
Died: 1937
Died: May 23
Accountant
Banker
Business Person
Entrepreneur
Richford
New York
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller
Sr.
john d. rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!
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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life's work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
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